Bug#818036: Acknowledgement (kpartx does not ship multipathd.service but tries to start/stop that service)

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 serious

I'm bumping the severity, as this makes the package uninstallable/not
upgradable:

# apt-get install --reinstall kpartx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 32.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 kpartx amd64
0.5.0+git1.656f8865-6 [32.3 kB]
Fetched 32.3 kB in 0s (59.6 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 354192 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../kpartx_0.5.0+git1.656f8865-6_amd64.deb ...
Failed to stop multipathd.service: Unit multipathd.service not loaded.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit
status 5
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
Failed to stop multipathd.service: Unit multipathd.service not loaded.
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/kpartx_0.5.0+git1.656f8865-6_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 5
Failed to get unit file state for multipathd.service: No such file or
directory
multipathd.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kpartx_0.5.0+git1.656f8865-6_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Fwiw, both binary-indep and binary-arch are buggy.
They combine -a and -p and -i and -p.
You can't tell the tools to act on all indep/arch packages and only one
at the same time.


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